REAL LIVE people behind the blogs!

So last night our quiet, intimate expat blogger meetup turned into a somewhat bigger event- with quite a few more bloggers and a LOT more noise!  Success!

Apparently bloggers like to talk in person as much as we like to blog!  Who didn’t see that one coming…

Apologies for the crappy video and subpar photos, but it’s all I got for you.  Several people are missing from my photos- so sorry guys!  I should have taken a few more shots. The others might have some better photos on their blogs…

The bloggers in attendance:

• Angela from Amsterdamned
• John from John Does Amsterdam
• Haley from Texaantje
• Anita from Greetings from Holland
• Hannah from Jandals
• Jason from Hanson World
• Andy from Andy in Amsterdam
• Lizzy from Lizzy Goes Dutch
• Pat & Steph from the aptly named blog, Pat&Steph
• and of course myself.

In fact it was such a success that I didn’t even get to spend time talking to several people that I was sitting away from and had really been wanting to see, and others that I talked to but not for nearly as long as I would have liked, so there will be some catch up drinks in the near future.  As well as another blogger meetup!

Cafe Gollem (Belgian Beer Bar)

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So if you missed this one, fret not!  We’ll do this again.  It was too much fun not to!

Also tucked away in a corner were several partners of bloggers, who declared that they were going to start their own support group for Partners of Bloggers.

Bloggers and those that love them...

Partners of Bloggers Support Group.

Ah, Bloggers and Those That Love Them.  I’m sure it can’t be easy being blogged about constantly, so cheers to them for being such good sports about it all.

Anyway, it was fantastic to put faces behind the names, and if I had any fears beforehand that bloggers would be tight-arsed, hard-to-speak-to narcissists, those fears were banished.  They were actually….alright.

Oh, hell who am I kidding? They were all fantastic!  At the end of the night I wanted to hug each one night and lick their cheeks instead of the standard Dutch 3-kiss goodbye.  But I restrained myself (this was a first meeting after all), and said goodbye to everyone sans licking.

But next time…..

Thanks all for a lovely night!  <3

Tags: Amsterdam, Amsterdam Expat Blogger Meetup, Cafe Gollem, expats